CTH & gti 2 week thoughts

[Melon Head]

Fuel consumption has improved slightly to 8.2L/100km. I can't see how anyone could get below 7L/100km though.
1500kms not a drop of oil used

[richycreations]

Fuel consumption has improved slightly to 8.2L/100km. I can't see how anyone could get below 7L/100km though.
1500kms not a drop of oil used

You can its just really irritating to do so, no aircon and having everyone up your ass because your trying to save 0.2 - 0.4l/100 its just not worth it.

[readerr0r]

I get 6.6 on my usual route pretty easily, it's a very cruisey route with some highway and then a bunch of hills with traffic lights. AC on, full auto.

Smooth take off is the trick and not doing accel when you're only going to brake later (ie. when a light is red ahead)

[Melon Head]

I get 6.6 on my usual route pretty easily, it's a very cruisey route with some highway and then a bunch of hills with traffic lights. AC on, full auto.

Smooth take off is the trick and not doing accel when you're only going to brake later (ie. when a light is red ahead)

My drive consisted of Point Cook to Aireys Inlet and back again using cruise control on the freeway about (350kms), and 170km of just driving around my area

[PGTI]

Well I didn't buy a polo gti to be fuel efficient. I have a Tiguan for that. I feel that I have cheated myself of fun if I have numbers of 8.2l/100km

[Melon Head]

Neither did I, and I don't drive it that way either. Hehehehe
Just interested that some people can get better than 7l/100km

[iigx]

My long term average is about 8, but most days when I drive home from work its ~10. On some long trips down south i've got as low as 4.8

[AC74]

Fuel consumption has improved slightly to 8.2L/100km. I can't see how anyone could get below 7L/100km though.
1500kms not a drop of oil used

Interesting... Mine's a CTH and just ticked over 3000km with an average of 6.9L/100km. Also no movement on the dipstick so far. Probably the biggest factor is that my commute involves very little idling time sitting at lights or in stationary traffic and a lot of cruising at ~80km/h in 7th (A/C on, D mode). I regularly get ~5.6L/100km on the way to work and ~6.5-7.0L/100km on the way home so I gets that offsets the hard, full throttle driving outside the daily commute.

I guess if you spend a lot of time in stop-start traffic and prefer S mode or manual it's understandable that consumption would be in the 8.2L/100km range.

[Melon Head]

Forget what the computer tells you, tell me what you get from a tank. Measure km and litres and manually calculate it.
I got 8.2L/100 with 350km of cruise control on freeway and 150km of driving around locally using S but no traffic.
If I drove it in City traffic I reckon it could easily jump to 12l/100km

[AC74]

Forget what the computer tells you, tell me what you get from a tank. Measure km and litres and manually calculate it.
I got 8.2L/100 with 350km of cruise control on freeway and 150km of driving around locally using S but no traffic.
If I drove it in City traffic I reckon it could easily jump to 12l/100km

Yeah, I might do that just to see how it compares. I reckon driving in S mode makes a big difference to fuel economy, shifting later and holding lower gears. The flip side is whether driving in D mode is too hard on the transmission short-shifting all the time for the sake of economy. My driving style is flowy in traffic and one of things I love about the GTI is it's flexibility. With smooth throttle applications is pulls very nicely in taller gears, feeling like a much bigger engine.

Like a few others have mentioned, fuel economy wasn't the reason I bought the GTI, but it's a nice bonus and I do enjoy looking at the bowser after it clicks off and seeing ~$60 rather than $80++ which is what I would spend on a fill up for our 2.5L Outback (62L tank) for pretty much the same kilometres.